122 "The Wisdom of COD Parti. 



Jiick or Spermatick Nature^ which hath not fo 

 much of Knowledge and Difcretion allowed 

 to it, as whereby to be able to govern this Af- 

 fair. 



• The Second of Mr. Boyle in his Treatife of 

 the high Veneration Man's IntelleB owes to Gody 

 p. 32. that is, the Conveniency of the Seafon 

 (or Time of Year) of the Produ&on of Animals, 

 when there is proper Food and Entertainment 

 ready for them. So we fee^ thaty according to 

 the ufual Coiirfe of Nature^ Lamhs, Kids^, and 

 many other living Creatures^ are brought into the 

 World at the Spring of the Tear ; when tender 

 GrafSy and other Nutritive Plants^ are provided 

 for their Food, And the like may be obfervd in 

 the FroduBion of Silk-worms^ (yea, all other 

 Eruca s, and many Infeds more) whofe Eggs^ 

 accordi?ig to Nature s Injiitiition^ are hatched when 

 Mulberry-Threes begin to bud^ and put forth thofe 

 Leaves y whereon thofe precious InfeBs are to feed% 

 the Aliments being tender y whiljl the Worms themr 

 Jelves arefoy and growing more jirong and fubftan-^ 

 tialy as the InfeBs increafe in Vigor and Bulk, 

 To thefe I {hall add another Inftance, that is, of 

 the Wafpy whofe Breeding is deferr'd till after 

 the Summer-Solftice, few of them appearing be- 

 fore July : Whereas one would be apt to think 

 the vigorous and quickning Heat of the Sun in 

 the Youth of the Year (hould provoke them to 

 generate much fooner : [Provoke them, I fay, 

 becaufe every Wafp's-Neft is begun by one great 

 Mother-Wafp, which over-lives the Winter, ly- 

 ing 



